FATE OF SEAGRASS PRODUCTION AS ASSESSED BY CAGE EXPERIMENTS IN Enhalus Acoroides BED IN GILIMANUK BAY, BALI, INDONESIA

Abstract

In 2006, the amounts of seagrass products floating away and depositing were measured by in situ cage experiments in a monospecific seagrass meadow of Enhalus acoroides in Gilimanuk Bay, Bali Island. Results showed that the average rates of the floating and depositing leaves were 4.03 + 0.28 and 7.95 + 0.31 gram dry weight shoot-1 day-1 respectively. To express it in another way, about 66.4 % of seagrass production was deposited on the seagrass bed and 33.6 % floated away from the seagrass bed.